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Autograph letter signed with initial : "Aux Délices" [Geneva], to [Nicolas Claude Thieriot], [1757] Oct. 1.

BIB_ID
119620
Accession number
MA 1765.7
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1757] Oct. 1.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
Provenance
Sale (London, Sotheby's, 12 Mar. 1902, p. 52, no. 509); Theodore Besterman.
Summary
Expressing his impatience on the tardiness of the publication of the seventh volume of the Encyclopedia; referring to his work on the History of the Russian Empire during the reign of Peter the Great.